The King's English

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Con- trast with this the real condition, in : If annihilation shall end (or ends) our joys, we shall never regret the loss of them.
Indefinite clauses, relative or other, bearing the same rela- tion to a conditional or future principal sentence that a condi- tional protasis bears to its apodosis follow the same rules.
Thus Whoever compares the two will find is equivalent to If any one compares ; When we have won the battle we can decide that qtustion is equivalent to If ever we have won. Accord
...ingly we can if we choose write Whoever shall compare, and When we shall have won ; but we cannot write When we will have won, and must only write Whoever will compare if we distinctly mean Whoever chooses to compare. As there is sometimes difficulty in analysing indefinite clauses of this sort, one or two instances had better be considered.
The candidate who should have distinguished himself most was to be chosen.
This is clear enough ; it is equivalent to if any one should have . . . he was . .


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